## THE APPARATUS OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS, THE COUNCIL OF LABOR AND DEFENSE, AND THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIATS

of Foreign Trade at the NKVT and to grant the right of independent access to both the internal and external market not only to industrial enterprises, trusts, and cooperatives, but also to private entrepreneurs. From the latter the state should only collect high tariffs and taxes. The NKVT should retain the role of regulator. In his letter Rykunov wrote that he hopes to defend his point of view in the press and in the collegium of the NKVT.

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## NOTES TO D. I. KURSKY

November 3, 1921

Comrade Kursky,

Should not comrade Kritsiman be included in the commission under your chairmanship (review of laws on the new economic policy, established November 1, 1921 at the SNK)?¹ The Commission on Utilization² is most directly related to the tasks of your commission's work. I request that you inform me of your conclusion.

Under § 3³ (the decree of November 1) the Commission on Utilization and similar commissions and Gosplan must be definitively placed.

It is necessary to supplement the decree of November 1 accordingly.

Chairman of the SNK V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

¹ The composition of this commission included: D. I. Kursky (chairman), P. A. Bogdanov, V. V. Osinsky, O. Yu. Schmidt, and M. A. Larin.

² On the Commission on Utilization, see note 1, p. 243 of the Collection.

³ Reference is made to the following passage of the decree: "3. For the purpose of establishing proper coordination and agreement in work, obligate all people's commissariats to report to the commission on all work being conducted on questions subject to review by the commission, as well as on those organs and commissions occupied with this work within the people's commissariats."

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November 16, 1921

In accordance with the proposal of the presidium of Gosplan, I propose to include from it comrades Strumilin and V. M. Smirnov.¹